The story concerning the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in The Congo has a quote from Peter Karube, which starts with "We survived the Belgians,.....". Mr. Karube, who is 65, never had it so good when the Congo was The Belgian Congo.

In 1950, I sailed up The Congo on the MV Del Rio. We discharged manufactured goods at Ango Agno, Matadi, and Leopoldville. Matadi and Leopoldville were fine cities, where there were paved streets, hospitals, telephones, electricity, law and order, etc., all put there by those nasty Belgians.

In the 1970's, when I was an airline pilot, I went back to deliver relief supplies to a devastated, war torn, starving "country". Anarchy reigned, black murders and thieves ruled, nothing worked. Tell me all about how you "survived the Belgians", Mr. Karube.

Even though you had an article on plagiarism. "Presence of Minds: Other Peoples Words", and another "New Routes to Old Roots", which featured a smiling Alex Haley, you never bothered to mention that "Roots" was a plagiarized book.

In 1978 in a TN court, Alex Haley, in an out-of-court settlement ended a plagiarism suit. Harold Courlander sued Haley for plagiarism, citing 81 passages of "Roots" lifted from his book. Haley settled out of court for $750,000, and Haley died a pauper. Haley also apologized to the offended writer, Harold Courlander, who contended Haley had passages from
Courlander's 1967 novel The African, published nine years before Haley's book Roots. Haley blamed friends who did his research for him and who sent him the passages when he was writing his book. The tip off was, according to Courlander, a "field call" which appeared in Roots, which was also in The
African, "Yooo-hooo-ah-hoo, don't you hear me calling you?" Haley's reputation in literary circles plummeted, never to rise again, regardless of his close association with Lamar Alexander.

I would not like to see this cancer known as "Political Correctness" ruin yet another fine publication.

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That is a very engaging first person account Ed, as was your story
about the Christian maid in Israel who experienced such extreme discrimination living under the Israel jews' system.

Leftists worldwide are very much in lockstep regarding their
theories of why things are as they are (e.g. in The Congo/ Belgian Congo/Zaire.) They just make up things, history itself... and if education is poor, who's to know? With the acceleration of communications and rising world standards of living, the evildoers now proclaimed by the world's leftists are still capitalists (read "Whites")...but with billions of non-Whites now actively cheering on the "educated" jew-wrought-up-marxists...caucasians now get successfully, exclusively villified worldwide. Instead of building their own nations, they just stage a "peaceful" (if you don't count the crime and mayhem) invasion of our countries.

I looked up Courlander. Another truth the "journalists" prefer not to cover.-

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[B]That was Alex Haley's Roots. Considerable publicity was given to the TV special aired by NBC on January 18 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Roots miniseries, and this would have been a good time to point out that Alex Haley and his publisher were sued by Harold Courlander for having taken so much material from his novel, The African. Courlander charged that Haley had not only copied over 80 passages from his book, but that he had copied "language, thoughts, attitudes, incidents, situations, plot and character." He said that it was doubtful that Haley could have written Roots without relying on The African.

Haley, who claimed that Roots was based on his genealogical research and oral family history, denied ever having read The African, but the similarities were overwhelming. He and his publishers settled the lawsuit in December 1978. Courlander, now deceased, told me that he was paid over $500,000. Roots was fiction and plagiarized fiction to boot. This was not mentioned in the stories about the 25th anniversary commemoration of the TV miniseries.